European planes skirt Belarus amid fury at dissident arrest
Publicat:European airlines began skirting Belarus on Tuesday at the urging of the European Union, which also imposed new sanctions to punish the ex-Soviet nation’s forced diversion of a passenger jet to arrest an opposition journalist, according to AP News. EU leaders agreed Monday at a summit in Brussels, to ban Belarusian airlines from using the […] The post European planes skirt Belarus amid fury at dissident arrest appeared first on Știri online, ultimele știri, presa online, ziar online - Sursazilei.ro .
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